Should Rupert Murdoch be removed as News Corporation CEO?

Andy Martin questions Rupert Murdoch’s corporate sanity. “Hannity’s America” furor plays out in an Illinois court as Rupert Murdoch dodges process servers in New York City and demands that his family members be exposed to delivery of legal papers. “Is Rupert Murdoch bonkers, or what?” asks Andy Martin. Hearing set Tuesday, April 28th at 9:00 A.M.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE EIGHTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
IN AND FOR DUPAGE COUNTY, ILLINOIS


IN CHANCERY
No. 2009 MR 000111
Hearing Date: 4/28/09
Assigned to: 2005

ANDY MARTIN,

Plaintiff,

v.

ROBERT GIBBS, et al.

Defendants.
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CROSS-MOTION TO STRIKE MOTION TO QUASH BY RUPERT
MURDOCH OR, IN THE ALTERNATIVE, TO SET A BRIEFING
SCHEDULE AND HEARING ON PROPER NOTICE WITH PRIOR
DISCLOSURES AS TO MURDOCH’S HOME, ETC.

Plaintiff hereby files this expedited response to a Motion to Quash filed by Rupert Murdoch on April 24th.
1. Because the motion to quash was not filed with proper notice, it should be stricken.
2. Plaintiff believes the Court should set a briefing schedule on the motion to quash, since Plaintiff has now submitted his affidavit of service and defendants Murdoch and Shine need to traverse that affidavit with their own sworn testimony.
3. Plaintiff moves the Court to order Murdoch and Shine to disclose their home addresses at which they wish to be re-served, and to identify the members of their households so that a process serves can stand by the buildings and serve a proper family member in propria persona.
4. So there is no doubt in the mind of this Court, contrary to defendant Murdoch's position Plaintiff does not believe it is proper to stalk a person's home to serve legal papers in a commercial dispute. Further, Plaintiff seriously doubts that Rupert Murdoch has personally authorized a stalking of his residence to serve papers on a family member in this lawsuit. The motion to quash appears to be the product of overzealous Chicago attorneys who are making work and building a bill but failing to exercise the common sense that should be a hallmark of every attorney’s advice to a client.
Once Murdoch and Shine have to formally disclose their home addresses, and swear under oath they were not served at their business addresses—when the sworn evidence is to the contrary—they may well have second thoughts about their attorneys’ dubious strategy.
The Court is aware that while Plaintiff and the New York Times have argued over issues in this lawsuit, the Times has not chosen to argue over service of process that is made in accordance with New York law on a security-guarded commercial structure.
If Murdoch is really authorizing and directing his current strategy in this Court, he should be removed as CEO by the board of News Corporation for violating News Corporation’s corporate government policy (see attached).
Dated: April 27, 2009
Respectfully submitted,

ANDY MARTIN
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I certify I have served Wade Thompson, Esq., by fax to (312) 840-8713; Givonna Long, Esq., by fax to 9312) 419-6928, Richard Nogal, Esq., by fax to (630) 655-9808 on April 27, 2009.

ANDY MARTIN

Andy Martin has media mogul Rupert Murdoch on the run

Rupert Murdoch is dodging Andy Martin’s process servers. Murdoch is afraid to own up to his slimy corporate behavior as a stooge for Barack Obama. Murdoch invites Martin to stalk Murdoch at his home: does anyone know where Murdoch lives in Manhattan? Obama’s “slime squad” against Andy Martin is slowly being exposed. Hearing set in Illinois court to enter a default against Murdoch for attacks on “Hannity’s America guest.

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin has media mogul Rupert Murdoch on the run

Murdoch is filing bogus motions in Illinois and trying to dodge Andy’s process servers

ANDY MARTIN
Executive Editor
ContrarianCommentary.com

“Factually Correct, Not
Politically Correct”


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

News Corporation media mogul Rupert Murdoch is on the run—dodging Andy Martin’s process servers

Murdoch says he wants Andy to stalk Murdoch at his New York mansion (is Murdoch senile?)

(NEW YORK)(April 25, 2009) Last October, Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News interviewed me in Chicago, a fact that Murdoch’s Chicago attorneys do not seem to realize. I was a guest on “Hannity’s America” and provided the first coherent timeline linking all of the radicals in Barack Obama’s life. Since my appearance, Hannity himself has gone considerably beyond the claims I made in attacking Obama.

But on October 5th, during the heat of the campaign, Barack Obama went berserk and created a dirty tricks operation to smear me. Obama’s mud-merchant-in-chief was Robert Gibbs.

Obama & Co. virtually ordered the New York Times to smear me. In two stories, one of them on the front page, the Times tried to suggest I was insignificant. The best smear the Times could come up with was a 25 year-old attack on me by a federal judge who I had exposed for engaging in corruption and conflicts of interest.

Why would the Times put an “insignificant” person on the front page? Because my anti-Obama truth squad was costing Obama millions of votes and depriving him of a runaway victory.

Later in October, Murdoch sent his munchkin William Shine out to smear me to Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post. Murdoch was groveling at the feet of Obama and Murdoch is known for groveling when it concerns his pocketbook.

Now ask yourself, when has any cable TV program, let alone Hannity’s America shown on Sunday nights, triggered two stories in the New York Times, as well as comments to the Washington Post? Why were Obama & Co. so obsessed with smearing me? Because they knew my columns were costing them millions of votes.

To clear my good name and to expose the corruption of both the New York Times and Fox News—which Murdoch is increasingly turning into a sympathetic outlet for Obama--I filed suit in the state where the Fox interview occurred, Illinois.

A process server was sent to serve Murdoch and Shine, and I went along to observe. I saw everything. Murdoch and Shine tried to hide behind the security guards in their office building and would not allow the process server to serve them.

Next week we have scheduled a motion for default against Murdoch and Shine.

At the last minute, Murdoch has hired a sleazy Chicago law firm to file false claims on behalf of both men. Murdoch says the law requires me to stalk him at his home and to serve him as he exits or enters his residence in Manhattan. He lives in a secure doorman building, so it would again be impossible to obtain entry for a process server.

Mr. Murdoch, who is so brave when he comes to smearing people, is a puny little old man when it comes to appearing in court and owning up to his slimy corporate behavior.

But since Murdoch has invited me to stake out his home and family (you can also serve family members) does anyone know where Murdoch and family live in New York?

In the meantime, now you know what kind of a scumbag Murdoch is. He smears people who appear as guests on Hannity’s America and tell the truth about Barack Obama.

I am very proud my columns cost Obama millions of votes. My only disappointment is that they did not cost him enough votes to defeat him. Murdoch was no help. He was in Obama’s pocket. He still is.
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of radio and television experience and is the informal “dean” of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new internet movie Obama: The Hawai’i Years. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com.

Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds Economics and Juris Doctor degrees from the University of Illinois and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York. He is an announced candidate for Barack Obama’s former U. S. Senate seat.

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